Archives — Calls from 1/22-1/31

Thursday, Jan. 22
• A woman called in and reported that there are strangers at her house that appear to be human, but are not as they keep going in and out of her house through the walls.
The woman said that the beings usually appear walking around at 5:15 a.m. and then leave the premises running. She added that they don’t talk, rather just stand there with their tongues hanging out.
The night the woman called she said they had showed up with two little children, who she reported, had “no coats on”. The woman told 9-1-1 dispatch that although she closed the drapes, they remained open just enough for the being to get his face in.
Dispatch advised the woman to close the drapes all the way.
The woman explained to dispatch that she had a doctor’s appointment Friday and had planned on getting a small barking dog and some pepper spray to fend off the mysterious beings. Until then, she said she is using oven cleaner spray.
Dispatch advised the woman that officers would be advised to do extra patrol of the area.

Monday, Jan. 26
• A man wearing a white hood was reported to dispatchers to be attempting to break in to a car with a “slim jim” in the lower parking lot of the KwaTaqNuk. The vehicle turned out to be the hooded man’s own car.
• A car was reported to be taking up the entire road on Emerald Street. Officers arrived on scene to find the car running and parked sideways in the middle of the street.
The vehicle’s owner said he thought he had left the parking brake on and the car must have rolled backwards into the street.

Tuesday, Jan. 27
• A significant amount of sand stored behind the Woods Bay Market was reported to have been stolen from the Montana Department of Transportation.
• A “strange” man wearing a black coat with white stripes was hanging around outside Valley Business Systems and the reporting party asked that officers stop to talk to him.

Wednesday, Jan. 28
• A woman called during the late night hours reporting that a man had been sending her harassing text messages all night with “code text.”
• A man called in a driving complaint claiming another vehicle had blue lights flashing inside and that he had been hit in the eyes with a red laser. The complaint led to the other car being pulled over and two males being arrested for drug-related offenses.

Thursday, Jan. 29
• A man and woman reportedly picked up a male hitchhiker on U.S. Highway 93 and when requested that he get out of the car near Post Creek Hill, he became verbally abusive and told the couple that they were going to take him where he wanted to go.
The driver removed him from the car and asked 9-1-1 dispatchers to have the man picked up and spoken to.
• A puppy was reported missing on Ninth Avenue. The reporting party claimed they suspected the dog was stolen by the paperboy.

Saturday, Jan. 31
• Four men drinking at the South Shore Bar allegedly went upstairs to the China Gates Restaurant around 5 p.m. and stole a large tub of chicken and a large tub of shrimp — approximately $600 in food they were not permitted to take. The drunken chinese food burglars were caught on tape by surveillance video cameras and two were identified.
The next day, two of the men returned to the South Shore for a drink and were arrested on-site by three Polson Police officers.